Well, for all the envelope-pushing sexual content buzz in this film based on the true story of socialite Barbara Bakeland and her emotionally-stunted gay son, I was...well..kind of ...bored. If you have read any press on this film, it will be no spoiler to mention the much talked about incestuous content, but that creepy part of the story is brief an comes almost at the end of film.
Eddie Redmayne plays the sexually ambiguous, mommy-adoring, boy-loving son pretty well and Julianne Moore is perfectly cast as his overbearing and controlling mother, but the story moves along slowly and the overall tone of the film is a bit of a Sunday nap inducing homage to the über privileged social circle of the 60s and 70s.
Thankfully there is a little bit of homicidal insanity at the end of the film to leave you feeling like you didn't totally waste 97 minutes of your life.
1 comment:
alas, much a buzz about nothing...
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